Australia

The “Groundwater Quality” conference this year was held in Fremantle, Australia. So for slightly over a week I was in the midst of summer next to the Indian Ocean. The nature of conferences is that you get to sit inside a conference room for vast amounts of time, however we did get to look round Perth, Fremantle and 4 contaminated sites …. a fertiliser factory, a diamond separating factory, a nutrient plume in the Garden Island Sound and an acid lake caused by lowered groundwater levels.